Robbie Henshaw: ‘I’ve let a few people down in Connacht’

It was his own decision. No-one else’s.

Robbie Henshaw was very clear on that yesterday as he pulled up a chair after Ireland’s open training session in Mullingar RFC to talk through an impending switch to Leinster which was finally confirmed last Sunday evening.

It was a declaration that echoed the one made by David Nucifora before Christmas when the IRFU’s Performance Director stressed that the union could not force anyone’s hand. Which isn’t to say the decision was an easy one. Henshaw clearly agonised over it.